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The Girl with a Bracelet

La Fille au bracelet

  • Status: Released
  • 12-02-2020
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Score: 6.481
  • Vote count: 208

Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.

Melissa Guers

Lise

Chiara Mastroianni

Céline

Anaïs Demoustier

L'Avocat Général

Roschdy Zem

Bruno

Annie Mercier

L'Avocate de Lise

Pascal Garbarini

Le président du tribunal

Carlo Ferrante

Avocat des parties civiles

Victoria Jadot

Noémie

Paul Aïssaoui-Cuvelier

Jules

Anne Paulicevich

La mère de Flora

Mikaël Halimi

Nathan

Léo Moreau

Diego

Jean-Louis Dupont

Grand-père de Flora

Sébastien Landry

Gendarme prologue

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I usually find with French courtroom dramas a refreshing lack of formality and deference. That's not to say that it's a free for all, but the ebbing and flowing of testimony and barrister intervention seems to me far more likely to facilitate a more accurate verdict. "Lise" (Melissa Guers) has been arraigned on a charge of the murder of her best friend "Flora". She was found stabbed multiple times in a bed they had shared the night before. The prosecutor (Anaïs Demoustier) is alleging that a leaked, intimate, video of "Lise" and their friend "Nathan" (Mikaël Halimi) was the source of the violence but she denies that. As the investigation proceeds, we begin to realise that nothing is simple here. "Lise" turns out to be a sexually active girl and the trial sort of shifts from an evaluation of her guilt and innocence into one of youth, profligacy, morals and behaviour. At that, it's quite provocative and the young Guers delivers well. She portrays the character convincingly, lacking in confidence and emanating quite a genuine sense of bemused bewilderment coupled with a remarkable degree of self-control. It's quite clear that as her parents learn a little more of their daughter's peccadilloes that they, too, have demons to face - and at times you do wonder if her dad "Bruno" (Roschdy Zem) is entirely sure of her innocence. Annie Mercier is also quite effective as the girl's legal counsel presenting a far less confrontational style then the prosecutor and for the bulk of this ninety minutes, we have quite a decent drama that does ask you not just whom you believe, but also - what were you like at that age. The trial itself seems a little weak, but as a vehicle for quite a characterful performance from Guers it's worth watching.